Boston Tech Watch: IKEA and Ori, Skyworks and Huawei & Massport and Turo
Summary
Quite a range of topics in this week’s batch of Boston technology news: robot furniture, male fertility, airport car rental spats, as well as the usual deals and acquisitions. —Woburn, MA-based chipmaker Skyworks (NASDAQ: SWKS) says the US ban on Chinese tech giant Huawei will erase $60 million in sales for the next quarter and slash per-share earnings by 10 percent. —Legacy, a male fertility startup based at Harvard Innovation Labs that analyzes and cryogenically freezes sperm, has raised $1.5 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures. —Apps Associates, an Acton, MA-based cloud migration company focused on Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) database and infrastructure systems, is acquiring Austin, TX-based SmartDog Services for an undisclosed sum. The startup is developing a machine learning engine to parse unstructured data from private companies to make the lending process for businesses more efficient.
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